Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations

by H. Harris Healy, III, President, Logos Bookstore, 1575 York Avenue (between 83^rd and 84^th Sts.) New York, NY 10028 (212) 517-7292,
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Freddy Goes to Florida
by Walter R. Brooks,
illustrated by Kurt Wiese
Overlook Press, $23.95

One of my favorite television shows from my childhood was Mr. Ed, about a talking horse based on a short story called ‘Ed takes the Pledge’ written by Walter R. Brooks. At that time, some of my favorite stories were part of a series of books about a pig called Freddy, and his barnyard animal friends, also written by Walter R. Brooks.

Years passed, I remembered some of the stories, forgot who the author was and found no one who remembered reading about a talking pig named Freddy. Out of the blue, in the last few years, wonderful reprints of the Freddy stories, with the original illustrations of Kurt Wiese, have appeared courtesy of the Overlook Press.

Apparently, from 1927 to 1958 Brooks wrote 26 books about Freddy and his friends. The first one, To and Again, published in 1927, reissued with then new illustrations by Kurt Wiese in 1949 as Freddy Goes to Florida, introduces the reader to some marvelous characters: Jinx, the cat, Mrs. Wiggins, the cow, Charles, the rooster, Henrietta, the hen, Hank, the horse, and Freddy, the pig, among others. From deciding to migrate to Florida for the winter, saving a dog from a cruel owner, discovering gold, rescuing Mrs. Wiggins and Hank from animal thieves, to pranks such as Freddy’s pushing a doll carriage down the hill with Jinx inside, these animals keep readers well entertained. Wiese’s vivid, black and white illustrations convey well the actions and subtly the emotions of these characters.

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